It’s official. Steve Lake, the founder of Sector 9 Skateboards, has retired/resigned from his position as CEO of the brand. It’s been over 20 years since Steve and his friends started Sector 9 in the backyard of a rented house in sunny La Jolla, Ca back in 1993. That said, change is the only constant in …
The 2nd annual Catalina Island Classic went down in style this year. The racecourse was winding & technical, the event organization was stellar, and this time around the skaters were allowed two days of shredding on the hill rather than only one. Insert a smile here. Tall and panoramic peaks surround us as we float …
The Rival features Rayne’s signature lightweight construction, a slight radial drop, three-stage rocker, aggressive concave, and nose & tail-kicks. This board is a 10” wide, 40” top-mount double-kick deck, with an adjustable wheelbase of 28 or 29 inches. The Testing: In order to test the Rival we set it up with some Caliber 44s, some …
James Kelly is one of the fastest downhill skateboarders in the world, hands down. This 23-year-old ripper hails from Petaluma, California and is known for his SkateHouseMedia affiliation, being a highly competitive racer, and for his fast and flowy NorCal style. James has been in the downhill community since way back and has been mentored and …
Wynoceros Grommetus is a subspecies of skater formerly found in several countries in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Sadly though, due to old crusty haters, declining stoke-levels, and the lack of wild & gnarly habitat, this little critter is now considered Critically Endangered and almost fully Extinct in the Wild. This elusive creature is …
George Mackenzie “G Mack” now rides for Rayne. That’s rad—we like that! Wooot! It’s also stokin’ to catch some visuals of George’s motorcycle as well as some recent shreddings in the BPs. What’s to come of this new relationship? A new Pro-model perhaps, more rad vids of maximum shred? world domination? Who knows, but we’re …
Caliber Truck Co be hitting us proper with the video goodness, yet again. This time around we have a Jack Boston edit featuring the ever-radical shreddings of San Fransico ripper Aaron Grulich (AFB). Homie’s be makin’ the Sunset Sliders proud and downhillers everywhere swoon with stokenastiness. Peep it!
The 2013 Muir Skate Downhill Disco was an epic three-day event filled with excessive shredding and some serious downhill festivities. San Diego is a badass locale and the downhill community is doubly as badass—slap those two pieces of the puzzle together “Disco-style” and what you get is one of the raddest skate-weekends of the year! …
Many of you have already seen at least some visual remenance or heard at least one tall-tale attempting to explain exactly what happened this past Saturday between the hours of 10am and 4pm, atop & flowing downward from each side of the legendary Gaffey Street hill in the City of San Pedro, California. Well, we are …
So I get a call from homie Connor Welles over at Road Rider a couple weeks back—he tells me that the Road Rider boys are putting together a small old-school spec-race up at the Sonoma Raceway, and he says that Wheelbase should come out and get in on the action. He further relates that …
The “San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate” is going to be an epic event indeed! Come join us on Saturday March 30, 2013 from 10 AM to 4 PM in San Pedro, CA on the corner of Gaffey & 36th St. for this one-of-a-kind skateboarding festival. The San Pedro Shred is sanctioned & permitted …
When pondering the substance of what separates a good rider from a great rider in this skateboarding-age, where so many up and comers are throwing down the most mega of lines, one must look for marks of Style. That said, my filet mignon might be your sausage filler, and vice versa. Thus, Style is something …
Fernando Yuppie is a character and a ripping skateboarder from Florianopolis, Brazil. If you do not know who he is, well, just watch this video and you’ll understand why this dude is an inspiration to so many in Brazil and across the world. Fernando is a good friend of us here at Wheelbase Magazine and …
Road Rider was established back in 1973, and hails from Santa Cruz, California. Although the brand lay in hibernation for decades, they are back on the scene with some killer riders, solid product development, and major style. The Road Rider crew has some, if not the, deepest roots in downhill skateboarding, and their recent video …
Loaded’s Chubby Unicorn is constructed with a lime-wood core sandwiched between triaxial fiberglass and covered with high-performance polyethylene. This board is symmetrical in shape featuring 4 ¾ “ nose and tail, a width of 9 ¾”, a total length of 42 ¼”, and a singular wheelbase of 28 ¼”. This board features a slight rocker, …
Scott Lembach is the epitome of “Beastmode”—If you’ve ever skated with him you already know this fact. He’s what us skaters like to call a “Charger”. He’ll shred any hill, pool, or whatever skateable terrain you put in his path. Scott is also the owner and general manager at Muirskate.com—one of longboarding’s premier online …
The Guajataka Downhill event is held annually in the small town of Quebradillas (Pronounced something like: “Cameron Dias”) on the northwestern shore of the tropical Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. This year’s 2013 event was much like those of years past, with thousands upon thousands of pina colada-toting spectators overflowing the length of the entire roadway, a huge pool of downhill skateboarders …
My good pal and fellow Paris Truck Co rider, Matt K, asked me a couple of months ago if I wanted to join him on his eighth or tenth skate mission to Hawaii—I guess he lost count at some point? As you can imagine I agreed to tag along without hesitation, wondering what it was …
The Landyachtz “Peacemaker” features a single kicktail design, an ample wheelbase, as well as some deep CNC wheelwells. It is constructed of 8-ply Canadian maple with a flowing concave throughout. The Peacemaker we tested has the rad 2012 graphic on. A new graphic for 2013 is coming soon. The Testing: In order to test the …
A few weeks back, just before the new year, we decided to get the Wheelbase Team together for a little “family outing.” Liam Morgan, McLovin’, Amanda Powell, Pete Eubank, Justin Preston, Marcus Bandy, Ryan Evans, and Dubes all piled in the Resource Distribution van, along with two mini kegs of Stone Brewery’s “Rumination” as well as …